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circa 1861-1865

Warren Post Office Block

Photograph

Title: As Lt. Col. or Major Burnham, standing 3/4 length portrait, arms folded on chest

Graphite inscription on verso "Surgeon Burnham Mass." Photographers imprint on verso: "Warren Post Office Block, Cambridgeport, and 100 Merrimack St. Lowell, Mass."

GLC05111.02.1123

1865 Nov 11

Warren Post Office Block

Photograph signed

Title: [Carte de visite of Nathaniel Prentiss Banks]

Inscribed by Banks to L. J. Cist (see GLC 749 Lincoln ALS to same for the Mississippi Sanitary Commission). Dated in another hand from the same time. With two cents revenue stamp on verso.

GLC02136.14

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